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Sultan
Definition:
(n.) A ruler, or sovereign, of a Mohammedan state; specifically, the ruler of the Turks; the Padishah, or Grand Seignior; -- officially so called.
Example Sentences:
(1) Crown prince Sultan Bin Abdel Aziz said yesterday that the state had "spared no effort" to avoid such disasters but added that "it cannot stop what God has preordained.
(2) His Highness General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi The Crown Prince is a leading champion in the Middle East for improving child health.
(3) An adviser to the Sultan of Aïr, the town’s ceremonial leader , sighs.
(4) The U266, ARH-77, IM-9, and HS-Sultan cell lines strongly expressed beta 1 and alpha 4 integrins (89% to 98% positive), confirming that VLA-4 is the principal integrin on these cell lines.
(5) The 15-page speech on "the limits of law" was delivered by Sumption – once one of Britain's highest-earning barristers – at the 27th Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, last week.
(6) The house, which once belonged to Prince Jefri Bolkiah, the playboy younger brother of the Sultan of Brunei, boasts a ballroom with elaborate panelled walls edged with 24-carat gold leaf.
(7) There is other evidence of a rethink in the replacement of the Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, with Prince Mohamed bin Nayef, the interior minister and architect of a successful campaign against al-Qaida.
(8) The author describes how nurse education has developed in the Sultanate and how, in spite of the influence and values of Western countries, the importance of the indigenous culture is not ignored.
(9) Both the Sultan and Cochin breeds were shown to possess two shank-feathering loci, and the data suggested that one of the loci in the Sultan contained the Pti-1L allele.
(10) Until recently multiply drug-resistant Salmonella typhi was uncommon in the Sultanate of Oman.
(11) He certainly seems to have exploited his firman or licence from the Sultan to remove "stones with inscriptions and figures" from the building with an enthusiasm that did not escape the critical notice of contemporary observers .
(12) In the National Neurosurgical Centre in the Sultanate of Oman, four patients with cranio-facial actinomycosis were seen over a 5-year period.
(13) But the risks of staying here are higher than leaving," Sultan, 28, told Guardian Australia.
(14) "The king is the umbrella to the people and the people are the pillars of the king," Sultan Abdul Halim said in comments issued through the national news agency, Bernama.
(15) Part of the problem is uncertainty about who has been in charge since the interior minister, Prince Naif, took over the Yemen "file" from the ailing Crown Prince Sultan.
(16) How to settle vexed land disputes over "ancestral domain", how to decide exactly which areas or "sultanates" will be included in the Bangsamoro, and how best to manage and share Mindanao's significant energy and mineral resources are all issues the peace process is addressing but is unlikely fully to resolve.
(17) The move could indicate the sultan is becoming more conservative as he ages, said Joseph Chinyong Liow, a Singapore-based professor of Muslim politics.
(18) Ugur Bilgin, culture secretary of the Alevi Pir Sultan Abdal cultural association, pointed to a persecution of the Alevi religious minority by the ruling Justice and Development party (AKP).
(19) The barracks were the site of a 1909 attempt by the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II to stop the liberal reforms that eventually led to Ataturk's modern republic.
(20) The Filipinos who landed in Lahad Datu, a short boat ride from the southern Philippines, insisted Sabah had belonged to their royal sultanate for more than a century.